Sat, Nov 07 2009
If debts are not taken care of, 16 Bulgarian hospitals will face prosecution. The hospitals owe 35 million leva for medical supplies and 3.5 million leva interest to the distributing company Trade League. The company gave hospitals a three-day term, which finished yesterday. Among the medical institutions that face trial are major hospitals in Plovdiv, Varna, Pleven and Stara Zagora. Pirogov emergency hospital and the national cardiological hospital in Sofia also owe money, 24 Chassa daily reported.
Representatives of the Trade League said that they expected the situation to worsen in 2006. The lack of structural changes to hospital financing will rapidly deplete resources. Representatives of medical supply distribution companies requested a meeting with Finance Minister Plamen Oresharski and Health Minister Radoslav Gaidarski. Gaidarski said that prosecutors should investigate how hospitals managed to accumulate such huge debts. Inspections will begin at hospitals in various cities today.
Kindergartens to be dealt with on a case-by-case basis and universities to decide for themselves whether to suspend classes.
Five illegal immigrants from Iran and Iraq caught by Bulgarian police in Sliven.
Leonid Lavchev sent an intermediary to collect 1000 leva from a dairy farm in Haskovo, investigators say
Former labour minister Emilia Maslarova follows the example of Socialist party leader and former prime minister, Sergei Stanishev, in requesting that her MP immunity is lifted
Health Minister: Influenza strain is not seasonal flu, it is swine flu. More than 100 000 Bulgarians are down with the H1N1 strain.